MAL-2026-13659 Malicious code in sme-rko-finance-front-payments-currency-payment-domain (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-13659 is a malicious package: sme-rko-finance-front-payments-currency-payment-domain (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13659/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13659/index.md)
- Package
- sme-rko-finance-front-payments-currency-payment-domain
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-13659?
MAL-2026-13659 is a malicious package in sme-rko-finance-front-payments-currency-payment-domain, published on 8 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require() of this package, index.js loads./loader.js which reconstructs C2 hostnames via array-join string concealment (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev), with a DNS TXT-record payload channel fallback under *.dl.wel1.ru whose sequenced records are base64-decoded and concatenated. The loader fetches a platform-specific executable, writes it to /tmp or Windows Temp under a disguised name (.cache<hex> or dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe), chmods 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe with unref(). A secondary duplicate path in lib/telemetry.js (re-exported by the main entry) uses concatenated identifier strings ('child_'+'process', 'chmod'+'Sync') to evade static scanners, base64-decodes chunks into an executable, chmods 755, and spawns via /bin/sh under an 'analytics-sdk' cover story. The package name mimics an internal corporate scope (sme-rko-finance-front-payments-currency-payment-domain) while being published unscoped and public on npm with a generic 'API client wrappers' description and empty author field, matching the shape of a dependency-confusion lure targeting a specific organization's private package name. Installing or importing this package results in full-host native code execution on the installer's machine from attacker-controlled infrastructure.
What should I do about MAL-2026-13659?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.